[221] The longer you ignore bloody truths
about what you consume,
the more blood spills for you.
[222] True tenderness is
to keep your heart firm
in never letting it harden.
[223] We all have compassion to some extent only,
which is why we need to extend our compassion.
[224] Why pat one animal lovingly
and devour another animal greedily?
[225] The Middle Path of destiny is to realise your limitations,
but to realise too, that they can be transcended.
[226] If all the important information you gather
is from a single source that keeps asserting
it is the only authentic one,
it is time to look around for a second opinion
[227] Always study the history of the historian
before studying any history as portrayed by him or her.
[228] There are only three kinds of authorities –
the totally enlightened,
the only somewhat enlightened
and the totally unenlightened.
Without a Buddha present, the first does not exist.
With only the other two present,
this is why we must always question authority,
lest we become blind followers.
[229] Everything we learn of must be discerned through
the ever-sharpened internal editor of our discriminating wisdom.
Otherwise, we are just confounding ourselves with truths,
half-truths and non-truths.
[230] An issue being controversial with two sides of the story
does not mean both must be equally valid.
It could mean that the non-valid side is
dangerously close to being seen as valid.
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